CERT Los Angeles CERT Support Groups

Statewide CERT Association: To support and direct statewide training and education in disaster planning and preparedness. Increase community awareness of disaster preparedness. Provide assistance to any government agency that requests volunteer services in any capacity. Contact with other Emergency Management related organizations, and coordination of annual CERT Conferences.

Contact:     Mark Tolbert
email:         markt@co.hernado.fl.us

Contact:     Jack Williams
email:         jackwilliams@polk-county.net

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Started 3 years ago, the association provides continuing and advanced training to graduates of the county CERT program. Additionally, training is provided so that CERT members can obtain amateur radio licenses. The association meets once a month and provides CERT volunteers to Emergency Management to assist in EOC operations, wildfire support, severe weather events or as required or requested.

Contact:     Chuck Miles
Phone:       407-331-1262
email:         cmiles8960@aol.com

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We are a private, non-profit 501 © (3) corporation organized to provide CERTs with administrative assistance (databases, rosters, etc.), basic and advanced CERT training, cache materials, supplies, and funding where needed. We also provide data to Community Emergency Managers for planning purposes. A website is maintained for CERT personnel in the Salt Lake County Area and public information on preparedness and recovery topics are available. Many local and national links to information and other programs are provided.

Contact:    D. Chris Springer
Phone:    (801) 468-2779
email:      avertwebmaster@avertdisasters.org

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The West Valley CERT Association is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of training and organizing CERT volunteers in West Valley City. The association works in conjunction with the West Valley Fire Department and Emergency Management Office to recruit and train new CERT volunteers, offer continuing refresher training and exercises for CERT recruits, and provide CERT information through our newsletter and on our website. The West Valley CERT Association is also involved in the organization of neighborhood and area CERTs, the establishment of area supply caches, and helping to plan and implement the CERT response in West Valley City.

West Valley CERT Assn. Website or West Valley Fire Dept.
Phone:      801-963-3336

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Since summer of 2001, San Francisco Bay Area bike messengers have been forming a trained disaster response team. The Courier Disaster Response Team of San Francisco has over a hundred volunteer bikers willing to receive First Aid certification, CPR for the Professional Rescuer, and Disaster Preparedness/ Response training. In a large disaster such as an earthquake, our trained bicyclists will first be survivors through preparedness. Then they will ride to aid our City in a coordinated and skilled fashion. Having trained and drilled for this time of crisis, we will calmly assist our fellow relief workers, transporting supplies, messages, and anything else that can be insanely handled on a bike.

Phone:      415-430-1269 x8768
email:         SF_CDT@yahoo.com

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The Motorcycle Emergency Response Corps hopes to save lives by moving personnel and supplies around the San Francisco Bay Area in the event of a disaster.

MERCury will be coordinating with the Office of Emergency Services and San Francisco Fire Department to provide trained citizen volunteers who can safely and efficiently move through the congested, and possibly damaged, streets of the City after a natural disaster such as an earthquake, or an act of terrorism. They will ferry supplies and rescuers, make damage assessments, and work with the Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams.

Members of MERCury will be trained in First Aid, light search and rescue, amateur radio, and advanced motorcycling skills. They also will participate in twice-yearly disaster drills in concert with the Fire Department, Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams (NERT), and the bicycle-based Courier Disaster Response Team. In addition, they will be trained in motorcycle-specific First Aid.

Contact:     Thomas Henning
Phone:       415-430-2160 x4182
email:         info@mercurysf.org

	updated: 03 August 2008